Ordering Oregon, Stanford and USC is tough. Following current form, it should be USC, Oregon and Stanford.
But you rank with a heavy emphasis on resume, so I completely agree with the Oregon, Stanford, USC ordering.

I think it’s a very good poll, except VTech is starting to have a decent resume. They deserve to be higher than #19.
I know the best teams they beat are 8-4, they were beaten by a 9-3 team and their Out of Conference is atrocious, but… oh screw it. They deserve to be down. Their resume is bad
(if they beat Clemson they should go to #12 though)

Scott

So if Georgia beats LSU, Oklahoma beats Ok St, who do you put in the national championship? Alabama would be out of the BCS in this case since Georgia gets auto bid and LSU would still get the at large.

Keith

If Alabama is in the top two spots, they’ll play for the NCG regardless of whether they played for their conference championship or not. In fact, LSU could lose to Georgia and LSU and Bama could still play in the NCG… and the BCS will still go on.

VT at #19 is awful. A one loss team from a BCS conference should never be that low any year, no matter what the schedule.

The AP poll is basically worthless anyway thanks to writers like you.

Dave

A conf can have three teams in BCS bowls if the top two teams in the BCS rankings are not conf champs. Georgia beating LSU and having LSU and Bama end up in the top two spots would make that happen.

Cornhusker

Ugh…one week closer to a replay of the least interesting game ever. Woof.

Please, God, let Okie State find some way to crash the party.

Scott

Wow, Stanford goes from 9th in the computers to 4th and Va Tech drops 3 to 10th. Sitting comfortably in 4th BCS. I think we hope Ok St wins and the Stanford – Ok St Fiesta Bowl becomes the most exciting bowl game of the year.

stanfordfan

I’m rooting for Georgia, Clemson and Oklahoma…

Gauss

Very happy that the computers restored the order in the rankings.

Playing Oklahoma State in the Fiesta bowl would be so much fun.
With the fantastic secondaries those teams have, I predict Stanford to win 55-48

StanTheMan

U$C should not be ranked above either Oregon or Stanford because it lost to a bad ASU team.

Not sure about how low Wilner has VT ranked but they don’t merit top 10. They have no wins over any team currently in the BCS Top 25, a loss to the only other ACC team in the BCS Top 25, and a 4-point win at Duke who Stanford pummeled into the turf.

I agree 100% with Gauss that Stanford vs. Oklahoma St would be an awesome Fiesta Bowl. Probably the best of the BCS bowl games, with the NCG figuring to be a 3-2 final score if it’s LSU-Bama.

Radioman

If teams played today….the PAC 12 leader would
be USC, and they would be the only team with the power and speed to defeat LSU,they simply get better every week

tk94111

heh heh, coach Shaw. Does this make more sense?

rudruff

@Ryan

You need to come by more often. Wilner is not a Pac-12 homer.

milo

Stanfurd Merlot!

PeteP

VT has ZERO wins vs. Sagarin top 40 predictor (his more accurate ranking, rather than the political correct BCS one). Even Houston has two.

On that note, Okie State has 6 wins vs. Sagarin overall top 30, while Bama only has 2 and LSU only has 3……. Just say no to a rematch!!

Darius

Amazing that an 11-1 Stanford does not win the dividing, does not get to play for the conference title, does not even smell the national title, nor gets to go to the Rose Bowl and has to “settle” for an at large BCS bid.

You would think that with all the gloomy Cardinal faces the team was headed to another off-season of “where did we go wrong and how can we fix it” rather than an almost certain major bowl two year’s straight and a very promising off-season to develop a sophomore QB that showed signs of brilliance enough for the Cardinal to challenge for next season’s division title against the LMJ-less quacks.

Damn proud of Cardinal Football!!

Pluto99

Darius – I didn’t notice many gloomy faces at Stanford Stadium on Saturday (other than those wearing blue and gold.) I’m happy with the team, but I’ll admit I had more fun during the 2009 season when Stanford was an up and comer and upset a few teams on their way to the Sun Bowl. Those wins against Oregon and USC were some of the best I’ve witnessed from Stanford football. I’m excited for next year as well, when we’ll have a team with a lot to prove and is playing to prove the critics wrong, rather than play to avoid the let down.

Ranger John

Stan the Man I can see why Coach was so upset with the rankings of an obscure ACC team over Stanford, or is it furd?

Did Harbaugh really recruit great or did he make it easier to bring top athletes to Stanford? Relaxed rules for admission?

Pluto, last I checked the season isn’t over for them yet…but it is for my Spartans, 2 or 3 plays and we could have had bowl eligibility, but Duke being hurt, it wouldn’t have shown our defense CAN play.